Table of Contents

An Introduction to the Lexical Semantics of Predicative Forms: a Computational Perspective.- A Comparison of Different Lexical Semantics Approaches for Transfer Verbs with a Particular Emphasis on Buy/Sell.- The Organization of Verbs and Verb Concepts in a Semantic Net.- Describing Verb Semantics in a Type Hierarchy: Disambiguation of Italian verbs.- Alternations and Verb Semantic Classes for French: analysis and class formation.- Semantics in Action.- Corpus-Based Argument Identification Using a Statistically Enriched Valency MRD.- Capturing Motion Verb Generalizations in Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammar.- Some Syntactic Consequences of Argument Structure Dimensions.- Pragmatic Connectives As Predicates. The Case of Inferential Connectives.- Interlingual Representations of Complex Predicates in a Multilinsual Approach: the Problem of Lexical Selection.- The Semantics of Event-based Nominals.

Reviews

`...it does, nonetheless, present a useful and eclectic review of European and US work in computational lexical semantics and is particularly informative for those working at the lexical semanticssyntax interface.'
Linguistics, Volume 37 (2001)